Skunk Works
A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
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4.6 • 403 Ratings
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Publisher Description
This classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies. "a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real" —New York Times Book Review
From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the chronicle of Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works is a drama of cold war confrontations and Gulf War air combat, of extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement against fantastic odds.
Here are up-close portraits of the maverick band of scientists and engineers who made the Skunk Works so renowned. Filled with telling personal anecdotes and high adventure, with narratives from the CIA and from Air Force pilots who flew the many classified, risky missions, this book is a riveting portrait of the most spectacular aviation triumphs of the twentieth century. "Thoroughly engrossing." —Los Angeles Times Book Review
Customer Reviews
Fantastic book
Fantastic book, not only telling the story of the Skunk Works, its workings, accomplishments and philosophy, but detailed aspects of inefficiencies in our government due to it being and over extended bureaucracy.
Great read
I found it hard to put this down. I am a huge fan of their work. It was well put together and very informative.
Excellent read for those who worked in or around aerospace
My career in aerospace started after much of what took place in this book but it is wonderful to be filled in on the history that preceded my term. And it accurately describes the way things ought to be done versus the way they were done during my tenure, which was filled with wasted time, money, and paperwork.